Min Guirong

Min Guirong (Chinese: 闵桂荣; 2 June 1933 – 28 April 2021) was a Chinese thermophysicist and space technologist. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He was a member of the 8th and 9th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.[1]

In this Chinese name, the family name is Min.
Min Guirong
闵桂荣
Born(1933-06-02)2 June 1933
Putian, Fujian, China
Died28 April 2021(2021-04-28) (aged 87)
Beijing, China
Alma materXiamen University
Southeast University
Scientific career
FieldsEngineering thermophysics
Space technology
InstitutionsChina Academy of Space Technology
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese閔桂榮
Simplified Chinese闵桂荣

Biography

Min was born in Putian, Fujian, on 2 June 1933, to a family of farming background. After graduating from Putian No.1 High School in 1952, he was admitted to Xiamen University.[1] In 1952, Mao Zedong's government re-grouped the country's higher education institutions with individual institutions tending to specialize in a certain field of study after the Soviet model. He transferred to Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeast University).[1] He joined the Communist Party of China in March 1955. In 1960, he was sent to the Soviet Academy of Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences) to study on government scholarships.[1] He returned to China in 1963 and that same year became a researcher at the Institute of mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He participated in the design of China's first man-made satellite between 1965 and 1968. In 1968, he was promoted to vice president of China Academy of Space Technology, and served until January 1985. On 28 April 2021, he died of illness in Beijing, aged 87.[1][2]

Honours and awards

References
  1. “双料”院士闵桂荣逝世，共和国今年已痛别十位院士. qq.com (in Chinese). 28 April 2021. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
  2. 闵桂荣院士遗体告别仪式将于5月2日举行. Thepaper.cn (in Chinese). 28 April 2021. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
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